Just as rivers flow from the ocean to nurture the heartland, so too does healing flow into the spaces where we feel safe, loved, and grounded.

KIND HEALING RETREATS

SPA SISTERHOOD is a part of the Vancouver Island Retreats experience, a sanctuary where clients can explore their emotions, process life’s changes, and rediscover their strength.

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Kind Healing Retreat:
A Sanctuary for Reconnection, Renewal, and Transformation

The Deep Healing Retreat is a private, 1:1 healing immersion held at the Vancouver Island Retreat — an oceanside sanctuary designed to restore your mind, body, and spirit. This retreat is for women who give so much to others: wellness professionals, healers, helpers, leaders, and those carrying responsibilities, burnout, or emotional weight. Here, you are finally held, supported, and guided back to yourself.

Rooted in 20 years of holistic practice — including aromatherapy, reflexology, kundalini yoga, counselling, Reiki, and somatic restoration — this retreat blends ancient wisdom with modern healing approaches. Each experience is personalized to what your body, nervous system, and inner world need most. No two retreats are ever the same; your path is shaped moment by moment with intuitive care, trauma-informed support, and Melissa’s signature depth of presence.

This is not a group experience, nor a templated program. It is a sacred container created just for you — a place to unravel what feels heavy, soothe what feels overwhelmed, and rediscover the clarity and calm that already live within you.

You’ll be guided through practices that reconnect you to your breath, your intuition, your grounded centre, and your inner wisdom. Whether you’re navigating burnout, transition, emotional stress, or a desire to reset entirely, this retreat offers a complete nervous system recalibration and a return to wholeness.

By the end of your time on the island, you’ll feel lighter, steadier, more anchored in your truth — and ready to step back into your life with renewed energy, purpose, and spaciousness.

Your healing begins the moment you arrive.

Navigating Our Philosophy

What makes this retreat truly unique is the way each moment is shaped around you. Melissa’s exceptional fluid intelligence allows her to quickly understand what you need emotionally, energetically, and practically — even when you can’t yet name it yourself. She reads patterns, senses shifts, and adapts the retreat in real time, weaving together the right mix of healing modalities and guidance. This means your retreat isn’t just personalized — it’s intuitively precise, deeply responsive, and designed to help you move through what’s holding you back with clarity and ease.

An intimate, couture retreat for your whole being.

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About Your Practitioner

My work isn’t about fixing you. It’s about guiding you back to your strength, your voice, your intuition, and your inner leadership.

My name is Melissa Horrell, and I’ve spent more than twenty years working at the intersection of leadership, wellness, and emotional transformation. My path has taken me from opening a million-dollar spa in Vancouver to leading teams across Canada, from studying women’s leadership at Oxford Saïd Business School to facilitating retreats rooted in rest, reflection, and embodied wisdom.

But the real story is more human than the resume.

I’ve lived in eight countries. I’ve reinvented myself more times than I can count. I’ve walked through grief, transition, and the quiet heartbreaks that shape us. Each chapter has taught me what it means to rebuild — with compassion, courage, and a deep commitment to inner work.

Today, I bring all of that into the way I support women and professionals:

  • Trauma-informed leadership training
  • Somatic awareness and mindfulness tools
  • Counselling techniques grounded in emotional intelligence
  • Nature-based practices shaped by my life on Vancouver Island
  • The healing arts I’m certified in— meditation, Reiki, yoga, massage, reflexology, counselling
  • And a cross-cultural sensitivity born from a global upbringing

My work isn’t about fixing you. It’s about guiding you back to your strength, your voice, your intuition, and your inner leadership.

I support women who are stepping into new roles, navigating transitions, or simply ready to become more grounded, confident, and self-aware. My approach is holistic—but it’s also practical, structured, and rooted in lived experience.

If you’re ready for clarity, courage, and a new chapter of integration, I’m here to walk with you.

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spa sisterhood philosophy

Emotions are a mindful art, each one crafted to talk to you,
 inspire and empower."

Every storm stirs the depths, carrying away the silt so the waters can shine again.

In the ocean’s wildest hours, the waves wash away what no longer belongs, making space for the new.

03. and safe to find my way home

01. I am anchored in love.

02. steady in the storm

mindset work

Philosophy
Healing is a journey - gentle, layered, and deeply personal

Mission
to create safe, heart-centered spaces for healing, clarity, and renewal.

Vision
A world where every individual feels anchored in love, supported through life's storms, and inspired to live with clarity, courage, and connection.

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